« Liberté, égalité, fraternité », La devise républicaine entre littéralité et resémantisation dans les discours de l’élection présidentielle 2022

The French Republican motto, “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”, adopted during the French Revolution, embodies the fundamental values of the Republic born of the Revolution. By closely examining the use of these words in the specific discursive context of the four main candidates in the 2022 presidential election (Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon), the study sets out to grasp the semantic richness inherent in these words, detecting the ideological subtleties that each of the candidates associates with these symbolic pillars of the republican vocabulary.